Building Monuments Quotes

#1. People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

K. Martin Beckner

#2. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#3. I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

Claes Oldenburg

#4. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?

Karen Essex

#5. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Robert Muller

#6. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

Majora Carter

#7. I requested off this damn night shift four times now. Barbara needs me. Barbara and little James. So I hope it's boy, so what?

Frank Miller

#8. I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen ... that's huge. It awes me.

Sarah Dessen

#9. To Hope
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

John Keats

#10. Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#11. A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

James Madison